Prime minister Boris Johnson will hold a Downing Street press conference at 5pm today alongside chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty and NHS director Dr Nikki Kanani.
The announcement comes as data released on Wednesday showed that omicron is now the dominant Covid-19 variant in London and is rapidly spreading across the country.
Dr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, told MPs to expect “quite staggering” figures on omicron growth in the next few days.
The prime minister will be joined at the press conference by Dr Nikki Kanani, a GP and medical director of primary care for NHS England.
GP practices across England have been asked to “clinically prioritise” Covid booster jabs over routine care. GPs will be on the front line of the desperate drive to ramp up booster vaccinations to tackle an incoming “tidal wave of Omicron”.
Boris Johnson is aiming to get vaccinations up to 1 million people a day.
Minister for levelling up Michael Gove will also be chairing Cobra with the devolved administrations at 5:15pm.
Kaynak: briturkish.com